Fri. 02/18 - Did the Index Destroy How We Read? Will eBooks?
How a medieval hatred of indexes mirrors debates today about how search engines are changing our brains. Plus, a round-up of the unceasing Wordle news and spin-offs. A thousand Porsches are on fire in the middle of the Atlantic. And how about a caffeinated doughnut with your space-themed Coca-Cola?
How a medieval hatred of indexes mirrors debates today about how search engines are changing our brains. Plus, a round-up of the unceasing Wordle news and spin-offs. A thousand Porsches are on fire in the middle of the Atlantic. And how about a caffeinated doughnut with your space-themed Coca-Cola?
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Links:
- How Scholars Once Feared That the Book Index Would Destroy Reading (Literary Hub)
- Students Today Can't Prepare Bark to Calculate Their Problems (Quote Investigator)
- Wordle Has Ad Trackers Now That the New York Times Owns It (Gizmodo)
- The New York Times has changed Wordle's solutions (The Verge)
- Extra credit: You can play Wordle in other languages! (Duo Lingo)
- Worldle
- Primel
- Reversle
- Quordle
- dordle
- Wordle Unlimited
- Star Wordle
- Queerdle
- Lordle of the Rings
- Taylordle
- Subwaydle
- 1,000 Porsches are burning aboard this abandoned cargo ship (The Verge)
- Ship Carrying 1,100 Porsches and Other Luxury Cars Is Burning and Adrift (NY Times)
- Just one last job... (Evan Simko-Bednarski, Twitter)
- Cargo Ship Full of Porsches, Bentleys and VWs Is On Fire and Adrift in the Atlantic [UPDATED] (The Drive)
- Coca-Cola introduces a first-of-its-kind flavor (CNN)
- Snack maker Hostess unveils caffeinated doughnuts as market for caffeine-spiked food heats up (Washington Post)
- Kottke.Org
- Jackson Bird on Twitter
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